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The Weaubleau structure is a probable meteorite impact site in western Missouri near the towns of Gerster, Iconium, Osceola, and Vista. It is believed to have been caused by a 1,200-foot (370 m) meteoroid between 335 and 340 million years ago [ 1 ] during the middle Mississippian Period (Latest Osagean to Earliest Meramecian ).
Asteroid designation Date & time (UTC) of discovery Discoverer Estimated size Abs. mag. Date & time (UTC) of impact Warning time Location of impact Airburst altitude Energy Method of impact detection Reference 2008 TC 3: 2008-10-06 06:39 Mt. Lemmon Survey: 3.8–4.4 m (12–14 ft) 30.72: 2008-10-07 02:45 20:05: 20.9 N, 31.8 E Nubian Desert in ...
Crooked Creek is an impact crater in Crawford County, Missouri, United States. It is 4.3 miles (7 km) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 320 ± 80 million years ( Mississippian ). The crater is exposed to the surface.
Astronomers discovered a car-size asteroid hours before it slammed into Earth and burned up in the atmosphere this past weekend, news sources report.Scientists in Hawaii initially spotted the ...
Object is just the seventh asteroid to be discovered before it hit Earth
When Apophis was first spotted two decades ago, it initially carried a 2.7% chance of impacting Earth during its 2029 flyby – then a record.. While YR4's impact odds have unseated Apophis, the ...
2024 YR 4 is an asteroid with an estimated diameter of 40 to 90 metres (130 to 300 ft) that is classified as an Apollo-type (Earth-crossing) near-Earth object.From 27 January to 20 February 2025, it had an impact rating of 3 on the Torino scale, with a maximum estimated probability of 3.1% that it would impact Earth on 22 December 2032.
2019 MO, an approximately 4 m asteroid which impacted the Caribbean Sea South of Puerto Rico in June 2019 [46] C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), comet; 2020 VT 4, a 5–10 m object which passed closer to Earth than any other known near-miss asteroid; Photographed ejecta from NASA's DART impact on asteroid Dimorphos [47] AT2022aedm explosion in an elliptical ...